NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Sep 2021
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
924 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1280
3584
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
3 MB
SM Count
—
28
Tensor Cores
—
112
RT Cores
—
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GA104
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
GA104-150-KC-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
170W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
8.6
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.